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STEPHEN KINZER France's role in the Rwandan genocide By Stephen Kinzer | August 14, 2008 IS THE defendant's dock at the International Criminal Court reserved for leaders of small and poor countries that defy the West? Not if Rwanda has its way. It wants to charge some of France's most celebrated leaders of the 1990s as collaborators in genocide. Last week the government of Rwanda issued a damning 500-page report documenting France's participation in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This marks a remarkable turnaround in the deeply politicized world of human rights reporting. Usually, such reporting takes the form of governments »
The long overdue sight of Radovan Karadzic in The Hague facing trial for genocide is a useful reminder of wars past. In 1995, after three and a half years of killing, an American-led NATO bombing campaign helped stop Karadzic’s atrocities and turned the Bosnian Serb leader into a fugitive. But do the humanitarian interventions typified by America’s interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo have a future? Even as Darfur bleeds, Iraq has become a grim object lesson in the dangers of foreign adventures. The former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright recently wrote that “many of the world’s necessary interventions in »
ABC News Bill Clinton's 'Lifetime Responsibility' to Rwanda Former President Visits, Sets Up Hospitals on African Trip By KATE SNOW BUTARO, Rwanda, Aug. 2, 2008 — The mist was just clearing over the mountains of Eastern Rwanda when Bill Clinton and Chelsea walked down an uneven, rutted red clay road early this morning. They cut quite a picture -- the former president in hiking boots and a polo shirt, his daughter in a raspberry suit jacket, oversized white pearls and high-heeled designer wedge heels. Watch "GMA" Monday to see more of Kate Snow's interview with Bill Clinton. They were here »
Nicholas D. Kristof Saying No To Killers So what would you do if, like Carl Wilkens, you were caught in the middle of a genocide? Wilkens, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, was living with his wife and three small children in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994. Then a Hutu militia began to slaughter the Tutsi, beginning with prominent figures like his banker neighbors, who threw their two youngest children to safety over a back fence before they were executed. Wilkens and his wife, Teresa, tried to distract their children from the carnage by playing a variation of musical chairs in which you »
Nicholas D. Kristof Saying No To Killers So what would you do if, like Carl Wilkens, you were caught in the middle of a genocide? Wilkens, a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, was living with his wife and three small children in Kigali, Rwanda, in 1994. Then a Hutu militia began to slaughter the Tutsi, beginning with prominent figures like his banker neighbors, who threw their two youngest children to safety over a back fence before they were executed. Wilkens and his wife, Teresa, tried to distract their children from the carnage by playing a variation of musical chairs in which you »
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